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Researchers have discovered an antibody which, when injected into mice, will bond with prostate cancer tissue and “initiate direct cell death” in it. If results carry over to humans, this discovery would almost be a cure to prostate cancer.

I say that it would almost be a cure for that particular type of cancer, because in initial trials with mice “F77 bonded with tissue where prostate cancer was the primary cancer in almost all cases (97 percent) and in tissue cores where the cancer had metastasized around 85 percent of the time.” This means that while the antibody even attacked advanced stage cancer cells, it did not attack them all.

Time Magazine just published a whole lot of different “Top 10? lists in a Top 10 of Everything 2009. One of the categories was – you guessed it – gadgets. And I was a bit suprised to find that not one but TWO Android devices were in the Top 2 positions.

Believe it or not, this is the Burj Dubai. The very end of it, the top of its antenna tickling the sky. It’s just a tiny part of this brain-imploding 2.3 gigapixel photo of the largest skyscraper in the world:

Of course, Gizmodo reader Gerald Donovan didn’t send the photo itself, as it would have broken the entire internet.

Scientists from Yale University and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea, have succeeded in creating the first transistor made from a single molecule.

Credit: Hyunwook Song and Takhee Lee

The team showed that a benzene molecule attached to gold contacts could behave just like a silicon transistor.

Today at the COP 15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, M.I.T. students introduced the technologically advanced Copenhagen Wheel. In addition to including various sensors and Bluetooth capability, the tire stores kinetic energy from braking for a later burst of speed.